If there is new or recent pain in the toes, balls of foot , pins and needles pain or sausage toes...one thing to try when you feel it coming on, 500mg/day of vitamin c and 2 ibuprofen with an evening meal for a couple of days and lighten up on meat or high purine foods for a few days... try it 2-3 days ..I would then go back then to the single Ibu once a day. The vitamin C will reduce uric acid levels and the extra ibuprofen will reduce inflammation...it just might help... It it does, then you know your foot or toe pain may be instigated by uric acid levels which don't necessarily have to be high to encourage P to settle in those joints..now this is only to see if uric acid is the instigator, if one had chronic long term pain from some joint, toe etc that has already been damaged ...then that is a different matter..I had some severe pain in both feet and shoulder and i probably caught it early ...after the damage has been done or for chronic , the results may be wanting...i don't know since its so up to the individual ..The trick with the ibu is you want to take it only once a day...it stays in your system 6-8 hours. which, when it is out of your system, should give your body enough time to produce the necessary prostaglandins to protect the stomach ...II believe people get into trouble when they take ibuprofen throughout the day..not allowing for this production of prostaglandin and resulting in stomach problems etc.
high.medium,low purine foods http://www.acumedico.com/purine.htm
remember don't take ibuprofen if allergic to it, trying to get pregnant, have asthma especially never children with asthma or have a history of acid reflux..other then those instances, the one ibu/day is pretty safe compared to some of the stuff out there and try reducing it with remission...
